Data breaches or leaks involving health or medical data.
Ardent Health Services owns and operates 30 hospitals and health systems with 200+ sites of care with more than 1,400 aligned providers in six states. Earlier today, they posted a security incident notice on their site: Ardent Health Services and its affiliated entities (“Ardent”) became aware of an information technology cybersecurity incident on the morning of […]
CNN reports: A network of hospitals in East Texas has not been able to accept ambulances to emergency rooms since Thanksgiving Day because of a “potential [cyber]security incident,” a hospital spokesperson told CNN on Friday. The hospital network, UT Health East Texas, is operating using “established downtime procedures” as the hospital investigates “a potential security incident” and works to bring computers back online, spokesperson Allison Pollan said in an email. Pollan did not respond to subsequent […]
YourErie.com reports: Read more at YourErie.com. Although not mentioned in their report, this incident was reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on November 9 as affecting 168,921 patients. Also not mentioned on WGH’s website is that the threat actors are known and they are leaking the employee and patient data on […]
SiliconAngle reports: Hackers have stolen the personal data of more than 8.4 million patients from Welltok Inc., a Denver-based company that provides software for healthcare organizations. Welltok first disclosed the breach in October without sharing the full details of the incident. On Wednesday, it revealed that the hackers had stolen information belonging to some 8,493,379 […]
Bleeping Computer reports: The former chief operating officer of a cybersecurity company has pleaded guilty to hacking two hospitals, part of the Gwinnett Medical Center (GMC), in June 2021 to boost his company’s business. Vikas Singla, who worked for Securolytics, a network security company that provided services to the healthcare industry, pleaded guilty to hacking […]
Breaches at third-party vendors or business associates continue to compromise millions of patients’ information in 2023. TechCrunch reports: Close to nine million patients had highly sensitive personal and health information stolen during a cyberattack on a U.S. medical transcription service earlier this year, representing one of the worst medical-related data breaches in recent times. The […]
Five hospitals in southwest Ontario are still working to restore services and predict that while services are being restored, it may take months to figure out who was affected by a recent ransomware attack on their IT vendor, TransForm SSO, that resulted in locked files and the theft of millions of data files and records […]
Supply chain attacks continue to pose a major threat to the security of sensitive data and critical systems. Five hospitals in Ontario, Canada have been struggling to function this month after a ransomware group hit their IT and services provider. DataBreaches.net broke the news when the Daixin Team revealed that they were responsible for the […]
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) with Doctors’ Management Services, a Massachusetts medical management company that provides a variety of services, including medical billing and payor credentialing. The HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification […]
Several days ago, The Data Breach Times noted an article expressing concern about cybersecurity in India. That article, which referenced data from a study by Check Point, also noted that one of the main sectors being attacked during the past six months was healthcare. Data leaks due to misconfigured storage devices also continue to pose […]
